Citizenship education
Learning at school and in society

Human Rights UN CyberSchoolBus Module

International via Internet

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the UN has conceived a Human Rights Module as one of its CyberSchoolBus global program of on-line learning teaching.

This program is partly in English, and partly in French and Spanish, and it is divided into two parts for the participating schools. On the one hand, the CyberSchoolBus has prepared an interactive Declaration of Human Rights as didactic material based on the Web. This device is neatly made for discussion subjects and activities about each of the thirty articles of the Declaration.
On the other hand, it has developed "The Human Rights in action", as a complementary component of the first one developed in this program. Its aim is, among others, to create a world atlas containing all the actions that schoolchildren had conceived in the area of Human Rights. Thus, it will allow the students to exchange experiences in this domain.

The global aims of this program and of the CyberSchoolBus is that of sensitizing schoolchildren about the UN actions and ideals and motivate them, in diverse ways, to carry out actions for those ideals at their level. Besides, by allowing the students to exchange experiences and ideas concerning Human Rights, the program appears as an educational content and a philosophy of life.

United Nations Office
New York Headquarters
United Nations Global Teaching and Learning Project
C/o Cyberschoolbus One United Nations Plaza Room
DC1-552 New York, NY 10017 USA
E-mail: cyberschoolbus@un.org
Web site: http://www0.un.org/cyberschoolbus/humanrights/f-declaration/index.asp

The project started in March 1998.